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Join Websleuths Radio for the final discussion of THE KILLING SEASON
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I see the defense is trying to confuse the jury. Nice try but the facts are the DNA found were 1 in billions or trillions that it belonged to foreign source. Furthermore, we know the car was washed and items thrown out and possible washing of shoes and coat.

But who knows. It might work for this jury. Baez did the same thing and it worked for 12 jurors in Florida. He had a flip charts and markers and all that new tech stuff <sarcasm>

My thought is that there are traces of the something that isn't there showing that it was there.....

Salem

Well we know that Victoria was in that car for at least 21/2 hours. Amazing how they found no DNA of her presence there at all other than between the door and the frame. Not a hair. Must have been a good cleaning job.

I will be interested to hear the defense's view on the back seat. To me the evidence that there were pieces cut out and that the back seat was removed are very damning. Given TLM's testimony, that was likely to have a lot of evidence, and it is unclear why it would be cut up and removed just from cleanup if something didn't happen there.

He had months to get rid of evidence and yet still there's forensics. I just don't see how the jury will fall for this defense. IMO

Hope this jury is focused on the real facts of the case and not the defense's futile attempt at confusing the jury. He admitted MR helped cover up the crime scene. How did Tori get there? TLM doesn't drive!

Was it? On the shoe, in the shoe... It's more likely that his shoe would have blood anywhere on it if it was at the crime scene when the crime was occurring I thought it was reported that Rafferty did not take his shoes off, but even if they were on, they could have gotten on the edge and gotten into the shoe.

Well we know that Victoria was in that car for at least 21/2 hours. Amazing how they found no DNA of her presence there at all other than between the door and the frame. Not a hair. Must have been a good cleaning job.

MOO

And yet they found a sliver of car seat fabric that had been cut out. How good a cleaning job was it then that they found this, and precious little else?

When the prosecutor said to "listen closely to the DNA evidence", he wasn't kidding. It's all so convoluted to a layperson and IMO sure doesn't prove anything, except that a tiny drop of blood on the door frame belonging to anyone other than Tori is astronomical odds. The location of said droplet is not in a place one would expect it to be, if it was deposited entering or exiting the vehicle.

Sure hope there's more evidence than what's been presented so far.

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~Aristotle~